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@article{194041,
        author = {Suvetha S P},
        title = {Pedagogies from the Margin: Reading Karukku as a Dalit Feminist Intervention in Education},
        journal = {International Journal of Innovative Research in Technology},
        year = {2026},
        volume = {12},
        number = {10},
        pages = {2505-2508},
        issn = {2349-6002},
        url = {https://ijirt.org/article?manuscript=194041},
        abstract = {This paper examines how Bama’s Karukku (1992) reimagines education thought the real life experience of a Dalit Christian women. While educational institutions are often considered a place for empowerment and social upliftment, but this autobiographical narrative seeks to reveal the ways in which caste and gender discrimination have come to be embedded in the places of schools and convents. Rather than reading karukku as an autobiographical novel, this paper approaches it as a text that challenges dominant structures of knowledge through the use of author’s life experience. Bama constructs her narrative around the lives and histories of people who have been excluded from formal academic discourse and this narrative disrupts the normative, upper caste and patriarchal ways of knowing within education. By analyzing selected sections of karukku like schooling, religious training and self realization, this paper examines how the writing of Dalit Women exposes contradictions within the spaces that claim moral and intellectual authority. Including Dalit Women’s narratives in higher education classes makes an intervention that changes the ethical and epistemological base of those classrooms. Overall, Karukku provides an opportunity to think about education as a space where critical consciousness is nurtured and developed; rather than simply a place where students advance in an institutional sense.},
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        month = {March},
        }